There are two kinds of people in the world: those who hate building Ikea furniture and madmen. Now, thanks to Ikeabot, the madmen can be replaced. Ikeabot is a project built at Control Robotics Intelligence (CRI) group at NTU in Singapore. The team began by teaching robots to insert pins and manipulate Ikea parts and […]
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Hold onto your youth, Ikea sells skateboards now
Desperate to hold onto your fleeting youth? Ikea’s got your back with a new collection of skateboards, hoodies, and furniture with a streetwear model aesthetic.
Dubbed SPÄNST, the collection is the brainchild of designers Chris Stamp and M…
StudioBricks is a Barcelona-based startup that sends you a studio in a box
My friend Rick is a voiceover artist and works in Ohio – right along the flight path for jets taking off and landing at the Columbus airport. As a result, he said, he had to record late at night when the airport closed, a limitation that he found exasperating. Enter StudioBricks, a cool startup from […]
View More StudioBricks is a Barcelona-based startup that sends you a studio in a boxTaskRabbit’s app is offline while it investigates a “cybersecurity incident”
TaskRabbit, the on-demand errand service acquired by IKEA last year, announced today that has taken its website and app offline while investigating a “cybersecurity incident.” The company also said that people who use the same password on TaskRabbit as for other services should change them immediately as a precaution. “We understand how important your personal […]
View More TaskRabbit’s app is offline while it investigates a “cybersecurity incident”Interiors marketplace eporta raises $8M, led by Canvas Ventures
In this day and age of higher expectation in offices, sourcing your furniture from Ikea no longer cuts the proverbial mustard. But the furniture industry is notoriously old fashioned, forcing buyers to leaf through hundreds of paper catalogues, most of which are outdated by the time you get around to ordering. The global design and […]
View More Interiors marketplace eporta raises $8M, led by Canvas VenturesMom very disappointed to find out truth behind her new bright blue IKEA toilet seat
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Toilet seats tend to be very uniform: the standard porcelain white. Snoresville.
So naturally, when one UK mum purchased what she thought was a bright blue toilet seat at IKEA, she was initially hesitant to introduce it into her powder room. But after considering it, she became super excited and showed it off to her daughter.
Her daughter, Amber, however, took a closer look at the label on the toilet seat and ruined her mom’s dreams of a colorful commode.
So Mum bought a £40 toilet seat from ikea, gets home and starts freaking out because it’s bright blue and she’s chucked away the receipt.. after about 30 mins of accepting it she’s finally got her head around the idea of having a blue toilet, until I come and read the label 🙄 pic.twitter.com/50OXqJo4wN
— Amber (@amber_stent) April 1, 2018 Read more…
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Ikea and Overstock add AR features to their Android apps
Google’s ARCore lets anyone take advantage of powerful augmented-reality tools on Android phones, and furniture retailers left and right are taking advantage of it. Both Ikea and Overstock have launched AR features for furniture shoppers in their app…
View More Ikea and Overstock add AR features to their Android appsIKEA’s menu of the future includes bug meatballs
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Hot dogs made of spirulina. Burgers made of bugs. Ice cream made from salad. This is the fast food of the future, people.
Working to create a new menu for IKEA, Copenhagen’s “future-living lab” Space 10 has reimagined fast food classics with sustainable, eco-friendly and healthy ingredients. And yes, that includes the meatballs.
Revealed on Space 10’s Medium channel, then presented by creative director Kaave Pour at Iceland’s DesignMarch event, the menu is meant to make people think about new ingredients they’ve probably never tried before (lookin’ at you mealworms). Read more…
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View More IKEA’s menu of the future includes bug meatballsGrokStyle’s visual search tech makes it into IKEA’s Place AR app
GrokStyle’s simple concept of “point your camera at a chair (or lamp, or table…) and find others like it for sale” attracted $2 million in funding last year, and the company has been putting that cash to work. And remarkably for a company trying to break into the home furnishing market, it landed furniture goliath IKEA as its first real customer; GrokStyle’s point-and-search functionality is being added to the IKEA Place AR app.
View More GrokStyle’s visual search tech makes it into IKEA’s Place AR appIKEA U.S. launches a furniture assembly service from TaskRabbit
You can now pay IKEA to help you put together its confusing furniture. The company announced this morning it’s rolling out the new TaskRabbit At-Home Assembly service in select U.S. markets where TaskRabbit is available, and in six stores in New York and San Francisco. The service is a result of IKEA’s acquisition of the contract labor marketplace TaskRabbit last September for… Read More
Ikea is testing a veggie hot dog and it looks super tasty
Ikea has the answer to every vegetarian’s prayers. Behold, the Ikea veggie hot dog.
The Swedish store is currently testing a veggie hot dog in its Malmö store in Sweden with a view to launching the product across European stores this summe…
Move over Tide Pods, police are cracking down on a dangerous Ikea challenge
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It seems the internet can’t get enough of dangerous challenges.
UK police have issued a warning about a teen craze called the “24 hour challenge” after an 11-year-old went missing while sleeping over in Ikea.
11-year-old Kaden Mirza from Sheffield, UK, was reported missing earlier this week after he didn’t return home from school. Mirza was found the following day after having spent the night inside Ikea as part of the viral internet trend. The boy’s father, Abid Mirza, posted a warning to parents on his Facebook—which has since been made private—stating that his son had been participating in a “stay in Ikea overnight and not get caught challenge.” Read more…
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